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Deep hand-laid color, the true faience Mosaic was known for — a rich cobalt and near-black ground broken by a checkered tan-and-brown border, with a nude putto astride a goat left in creamy white lifting forward off the dark field. The figure-on-goat traditionally represents Capricorn, the goat of the zodiac — a Renaissance-revival scene composed…
Unknown maker · 4 x 2 in · 4 available · $15 per tile
A rare cache of 45 antique architectural tiles, each a luminous 3 x 3 inch square with a fine high-gloss glaze in a moody, mottled bronze that shifts like smoke over firelight. Likely American Encaustic or a rival Arts & Crafts maker, salvaged from an early 20th-century fireplace surround, carrying their story in fine crackle…
A group of 42 antique white ceramic tiles made by the Old Bridge Tile Company of New Jersey, salvaged from a historic American interior and marked OLD BRIDGE on the reverse. Includes 36 tiles at 1 x 4 in and 6 at 1 x 2 in, with a classic slightly-warm white glaze and natural Victorian-era…
117-piece antique pale blue mottled crackle glaze tile set in soft aqua, celadon, and cream. American-made, high gloss, excellent condition. Free shipping.
A rare, color-matched group of ten antique fireplace tiles by Pilkington’s Tile & Pottery Co., each bearing the impressed Rd No 562546 — a design registered in 1910. The tiles depict a laurel wreath bound with ribbons, emblematic of Pilkington’s Edwardian neoclassical period. The glaze is a luminous teal-green majolica over white body with gentle…
A rare soft turquoise-aquamarine that leans blue, pooling deepest in the fluted channels and lifting pale across the raised ribbon and bead; a fine crazing runs the whole surface. Neoclassical in vocabulary: a ribbon threads in flowing S-curves through graduated beads over a fluted ground, framed with egg-and-dart and beading. Providential Tile Works of Trenton,…
Robertson Art Tile Co. · approx. 6 x 2 in · 7 available · $15 per tile
Unknown maker · 4.25 x 4.25 in and companion sizes · 4 available · $25 per tile
A rare cache of luminous green tiles crafted by Sherwin & Cotton in England, bearing the distinctive Sherwin Patent Lock Back mark. These antique 3 x 3 inch tiles shimmer with depth — glazed in a richly mottled emerald that evokes moss-drenched stone and forest shadows, the glaze pooling into velvet-like depths. Each tile is…
An assembled antique fireplace surround in glazed relief tile, reclaimed from a Philadelphia mansion and laid out to match its original installation. The decorative panel covers approximately 9.5 square feet (46¾ × 29½ inches). The tiles are Trenton, New Jersey work of the late nineteenth century, with maker’s marks across the set including Robertson Art…
Aubergine pooled deepest in the relief’s hollows with flashing iridescent green; pale lavender rides the high ridges where the glaze drew back during firing. No two tiles pooled alike — the fingerprint of glaze laid by hand and fired the way Trent fired in the 1890s. Looping ribbon-scrolls rise from a base of curling leaves,…
Trent Tile Co., Trenton, New Jersey, c. 1885–1900. This is not a lot of tiles — it is a fragment of American industrial art history, and it comes with the tool that made it possible. A set of glazed production tiles in Trent’s signature mustard-amber majolica glaze, each 6×6 in, impressed TRENT TILE / TRENTON,…
Cosmic amber — 14 tiles from the Victorian hearth, Trent’s sunburst still radiant. An extraordinary matched set of 14 antique fireplace tiles by Trent Tile Company, each 6×6 inches, featuring the company’s iconic geometric starburst motif, finished in a bold glossy ochre glaze with deep caramel accents and dramatic all-over crazing — a colorway sometimes…
A rare and early Trent faience surround, salvaged from a grand mantel installation that once included the celebrated Trent Shepherd & Figures pictorial tiles. The architectural field that framed them — this shimmering suite of Cloudburst Aqua over Caramel Snow — remains whole and luminous. The glaze is unmistakably early Trent: drifting veils of aqua…
A complete figural fireplace surround by the Trent Tile Company of Trenton, New Jersey, modeled in deep high relief and finished in a warm tobacco-brown and olive transmutation glaze. Each tile is stamped TRENT on the reverse. Reclaimed from a mansion in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The figural designs are documented works of the sculptor William Wood…